We have torts for trespass, and even criminal prosecution available for it in some cases, and for stalking should their behaviors have met the definition. But copyright is not for the enforcement or punishment of any of these things, nor for the purpose of suppressing the reporting of fact or opinion.
You have to love (read:abhor) the chutzpah it takes to suggest that the warranty term was all anyone could have hoped and predicted their product would useful for, as if people who plunked down good money for the devices understood and anticipated that they would only be good for a mere year or two and bought them on that basis. People assume the risk that a product might break after its warranty, but not that the maker will intentionally cause it to malfunction.
I hope the FTC lowers the boom on Google in a huge way here.
Also, we desperately need a law to negate all the BS terms of "service" that prohibit taking this sort of thing (and anything else, really) to the courts for redress.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 28 Mar 2016 @ 5:51pm
Re: What about Stuxnet?
He doesn't even seem to get the question. He's answering like he's thinking about the antiquated systems that the IRS, OPM, and so many other government agencies run, and not at all in terms of offensive "cyber" capabilities.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 14 Mar 2016 @ 8:39am
As I recall, Wheeler's initially floated plan permitted paid prioritization (possibly with some theoretically good aspects), prompting Obama's public call for net neutrality. To his credit though, once he came over to the light side he's done pretty well.
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His whole conception of rights and governments is inverted. Instead of the power and authority arising from the people, his view is that it all belongs to the government, and our rights are the exceptions that the government allows.
Ramos, meanwhile, said he'd heard about social media posts that mocked the term "cyber pathogen," which is not generally used by tech experts. "When they do that," he said, "they're mocking the victims of this crime, of this horrible terrorist attack."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sVVl2EKgUU
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Some people are too stupid for even simple logic, I suppose.
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However, the non-profit will buried under a blizzard of white (paper) like an outpost on Hoth for even deigning to fight it.
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warranty
I hope the FTC lowers the boom on Google in a huge way here.
Also, we desperately need a law to negate all the BS terms of "service" that prohibit taking this sort of thing (and anything else, really) to the courts for redress.
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Hmm, what might their strategy be here?
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He said one true thing in that interview.
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mocking victims
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